Form Post - Slashes - Help!

Hi, I'm very new with php so it might be hard for me to explain what I'm trying to say and do. On the page "site.php", there's a textarea with a html code to google inside it. When someone submits that form, it'll send them to preview.php with the hardlink outside the textarea AND the source code to the hardlink inside the textarea.

The problem is that preview.php is giving out slashes:


<a href=\"http://www.google.com\">google</a>

Code:

site.php
<form action="preview.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="preview">
<textarea class="hidden" name="preview">
<a href="http://www.google.com">google</a>
</textarea>
<input type="submit" name="view" value="Preview">
</form>


preview.php
<? echo ''.$_POST['preview'].'';?>
<br><br>
<textarea><? echo ''.$_POST['preview'].'';?></textarea>

I hope someone could help me out.

welcome here!

use

stripslashes($_POST['preview'])

to remove them

manual: http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.stripslashes.php

welcome here!

use

stripslashes($_POST['preview'])

to remove them

manual: http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.stripslashes.php


So do I do this?:

<? echo stripslashes($_POST['preview']);?>
<br><br>
<textarea><? echo stripslashes($_POST['preview']);?></textarea>

or you coud use

<?php
$post_preview_url = stripslashes($_POST['preview']);
echo $post_preview_url, '<br /><br /><textarea>', $post_preview_url ,'</textarea>';
?>

--> set the variables at the top of your script is more transaprant and easier to maintain + you only need to process them once
--> don't use shorttags (<? and ?>) since they wount work on all servers. use <?php and ?>
--> don't drop in and out of php mode, just echo out the html in single quoted strings
--> use echo with multiple arguments, concatinated with ',' because this uses less runtime resources then an echo 'string1' . 'string2' etc

Wow that's a lot more convienant. Thanks a lot Raf for your help.

If you are wanting a more advanced text area then look into using a Rich Text Editor such as KTML Lite or FCKEditor

Wow that's a lot more convienant. Thanks a lot Raf for your help.you're welcome:thumbsup: